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Interview with Lopez-Obrador & More on Torture

In a telling interview by Jorge Ramos, Mexico's Lopez-Obrador declares his complete innocence of committing any crime, and accuses Fox of hatching the plan to disqualify him from running for the presidency.

A Naomi Klein article describes the ineffectiveness of torture as a way to gain information, but the extreme effectiveness of the practice as a way of social control. This helps explain why torture continues to be used by governments around the world.